Symbols
can be objects rich with meaning that
signify a message. Our American flag and
the anthem symbolize all the lives sacrificed to defend our country. The
flag is red, white and blue. White signifies purity and innocence; red
signifies valor and bravery (blood); and blue represents vigilance, perseverance, and justice. What's there not to
like about these values every American would do well to exhibit?
When players on a football field won’t honor our flag and our anthem, they’re not exercising a right to free speech, no, they’re disrespecting the individuals who fought so they could live a free life. Football
players are not heroes when they take from a country without giving it at the
very least respect.
Tell the young widow
who receives a folded flag that draped the casket of her young husband on his
burial day that our flag and national anthem have no value. Nor did her
husband’s life given so football players could run around on a field playing a
ball game rather than dodging bullets.
Perhaps
fine football players who take a knee $100,000 per game when they dishonor the
values of the country they live in. Give this money to surviving spouses and
children who sacrificed forever the presence and emotional and financial support of their dead family members.
Let
these football players who want to make political statements about race
relations and police behavior give talks
to kids in school, community forums, do something proactive that costs them personal energy and time – an appropriate way to exercise their freedom of speech.
Shame on team members who will play side by side with men who are traitors
to the value of lives sacrificed for them and their posterity. It should
disgust every player to see our flag and anthem mocked.
Shame on the coaches and the franchises who are willing to overlook this gross degradation. Each
player who kneels is guilty of degrading these symbols of sacrificed lives. The souls of the valiant who died for our
freedoms cry out: Shame, shame, shame.
While only the first verse of the
National Anthem is commonly sung at sports events, there are four verses to our
National Anthem. This is the last verse:
O thus be it ever when freemen shall
stand
Between their lov’d home and the
war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the
heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and
preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause
it is just,
And this be our motto – “In God is
our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in
triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Our Family - Proud to be Americans!
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